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1 Human Uses of Viruses

2 Vaccines – injecting a person with a dead or weakened virus
Use the virus against itself

3 Vaccines stimulates body to produce cells and proteins that will kill the virus if it reenters the body

4 Vaccines Examples – small pox, polio, measles

5 Smallpox

6 Smallpox

7 Smallpox

8 Smallpox vs. Chickenpox

9 Genetic Engineering

10 Genetic engineering Viruses can sometimes pick up host cell genes and carry them into other cells   Correct genetic defects by using viruses to take the genes to the cells

11 Boy in the Bubble David Vetter lacked enzymes needed for immune system to function

12 severe combined immunodeficiency
Genetic Engineering A virus can be used to insert a corrected gene into their body cells severe combined immunodeficiency

13 Agriculture Use viruses to control pests that destroy crops 

14 Agriculture Use viruses for stripes and colors in flowers 

15 Kingdom Monera

16 Kingdom MONERA – all prokaryotes (bacteria)

17 Structure

18 Cell membrane and cell wall – hold the cell together, protect and support, control what goes in and out

19 Slime capsule – sticks them to whatever they live on, protects them

20 Nuclear area – single wad of DNA

21 Plasmids – small pieces of DNA that are not part of the main DNA

22 Ribosomes – where proteins are made

23 Flagella – whip-like tail used to move (bacteria are poor movers)

24 Classification Very difficult because of small size

25 Monera Archaebacteria Eubacteria
So different that many scientists have them as two separate kingdoms

26 Archaebacteria – “ancient bacteria”
Methanogens Thermophiles Halophiles

27 Methanogens – live in oxygen-free environments and produce methane

28 Methanogens Digestive tract of cows, swampy areas, sewage

29 Thermophiles – “heat lovers”

30 Thermophiles Live in thermal vents and hot pools

31 Halophiles – “salt lovers”

32 Halophiles Live in Great Salt Lake or Dead Sea Great Salt Lake

33 Eubacteria – “true bacteria”, live in less harsh conditions, found everywhere
E. coli Salmonella

34 Subclassification Food source, shape, cell arrangement….

35 Food source Autotroph – can make their own food Example:
blue-green bacteria

36 Food source Heterotroph – get their food from some other organism

37 Shape – 3 basic shapes Coccus Bacillus Spirillum

38 Coccus – “Berry” shaped, spherical

39 Streptococcus Strep throat

40 Bacillus – “rod” shaped, like a hotdog

41 Lactobacillus Lactobacillus

42 Spirillum – spiral shaped

43 Cell arrangement

44 Diplo- in pairs

45 Strepto – in chains

46 Staphylo – in a cluster (like grapes)

47 Tetrad – a group of 4 coccus bacteria

48 Sarcina – group of 8 coccus bacteria in a cube like arrangement

49 What is the shape and cell arrangement?

50 What is the shape and cell arrangement?

51 What is the shape and cell arrangement?

52 What is the shape and cell arrangement?

53 Others

54 Gram stain An extra layer in gram negative prevents many antibiotics from entering the cell positive negative

55 Slime capsule?

56 Flagella?

57 What they eat


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